Thursday, July 7, 2016

Pro-Clinton Think Tank Helps Launch New National Security Initiaitve

The liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) is flexing its muscles once again in its ongoing attempt to help Hillary Clinton become president of the United States. Here is more:

The political arm of the Center for American Progress, a leading progressive group that is aligned with Hillary Clinton,
is bringing together major Democratic figures in national security to
focus attention on the stakes of the election and to highlight what they
see as the damaging potential of a Trump presidency.

The
project, called the National Security Leadership Alliance, will be
funded by C.A.P. Action. It will feature a roster of major members of
the foreign policy and national security community, including two
retired four-star generals; Leon E. Panetta,
the former C.I.A. director; Madeleine K. Albright, the former secretary
of state; Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general; and Carl
Levin, the former Michigan senator. All have endorsed Mrs. Clinton.

There will be an effort to highlight precisely what, in the military arsenal, Donald J. Trump
would have access to as president. Mr. Trump has been criticized for
his views on foreign policy, criticisms that have been central to the
case that Mrs. Clinton has made against him in an effort to describe the
stakes of the 2016 presidential election. The Center for American
Progress is led by a top outside adviser to Mrs. Clinton, Neera Tanden,
and the new project seeks to put a spotlight on what officials are
calling a progressive foreign policy vision.

Ms. Tanden has long been rumored to be a possible pick for the chief of staff position under a Clinton Administration. Here is a link to the NSLA's new website. Here is a press release about the NSLA launch.

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